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Volume 6
BAINBRIDOE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 3.1876
flie Weekly Democrat.
0EN. E- RUSSELL, - Proprietor.
guNBRUHJE, February 3„ 1876.
terms of subscription.
jvt »nniiin. In a ! l'"*nce,
months, in advance,
Yri ihree months, in advance,
, osrleropy. ' n advance.
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among our neighbors
Every few vreeke Mrs. Victoria Wood-
1,1,11 mails to our address a marked paper,
<„nt lining long expressions of her pecu
liar social theories. Were it not for the
l, r j-k liusiness we are driving in the wrnp-
ping paper trade, we could almost wish
tu.it Vic wouldn't litter up our sanctum
irith her free-love trash; hut so long as
there is a demand for old newspapers here
abouts, we gladly welcome her literary in
stillments.
Members of the Georgia Legislature get
seven dollars a day, and tacked on to this
is mileage of five dollars for every twenty
miles traveled. When it is lemembered
tlmt nearly all of them have dead-head
ti'-keta over the railroads, it will be seen
that the average Georgia law-maker lias a
very nobby thing of it.
The Tulbolton 8tandard says that it is
an outrage to pay the Attorney-General of
the State $2,000 per annum, and adds,
that there are plenty of lawyers who would
take the office for $800. No doubt of it
—Mumford, for instance.
Tiie Second Congressional District has
the best weekly papers in the South. Not
title of them hut is lively and spicy.
The S T ewn sft-s the proposed completion
of the II. & A. It. It., to Eufuula, is ail
the l dk in Albany.
in the recent prize drill of the Thomas,
v:!'• Guards, Sergeant T. N. Hopkins re-
c ’ve.l the white plume as the best drilled
mm, and Mr. James Evans the red pluinc
:i» i • best shot.
t):i Sunil iy evening last a negro whs
.'•iot i i kumpkin by Mr. Lucius Mansfield,
t ie l> ill striking him on the head knock-
in: him down but not seriously hurting
him il insfiehl thinking tlie negro was a
goner, tied.
('mill. rt. iless'nyer: “The other night a
im-ry of negroes p.iviod our house singing
“iiiil John Brown’s March into Virginia,”
pilch "1 to thn tune of “Bully I’.ov Bah!”
li i :n led like drawing a cow-hide over
a loo e paling.”
The young Mripling of the Talbotton
' ford has a new pet name for Georgia
Legislators, lie calls them “Spendthrifts.”
II ■ fitrdier remarks that “the average leg
i dal or will vote for or agaiff5t|any bill if
there is a drink of brandy or an oyster
supper in it.” If what the young editor
says in this particular were tiue—which
it is the right of every American citizen
to ilou'd—would it not be the old case of
the po: charging the kettle with having a
dark complexion? The young editor an
nounces John II. James as his choice for
Governor ■ This—well—but we believe it
was ten dollars James paid for that sketch,
was it not ? Well, that’s so—ten dollars
would buy sereral drinks, wouldn’t they ?
The usher will please seat those ladies—
we can stand.
When a Fort Gaines negro bought a
mule, the sheriff levied on him before
the trade got cold.
.tnJ w Carlton B. Cole, one of the most
prominent citizens of Middle Georgia, is
dead.
The Spring meeting of the Georgia Ag
ricultural Society will take place at Bruns
wick, on the 8th day of February. The
railroads again agree to pass free both
ways three delegates from each county,
an 1 a full attendance is promised.
Cuthbert had a destructive fire last
Tuesday night. Five stores were burhed.
Thomas county has more oats planted
than ever before.
Col. Torn Hardeman denies that he has
withdrawn from the Gubernatorial race.
“Honest Jack Jones” is out in a long
defence against the insinuations contained
in the Governors late message. Hang
your ^newspaper “defences.” Let the
people know where their money has gone.
The Young Ciseero of the Talbotton
5 indard says Georgia has the “most cor
rupt government on earth-” It would pain
ns monstrously to think that the youthful
curmudgeon was telling the truth.
The Southern Farm <£ Slock Journal is
the name of a new eight-page paper start
ed in Madison by Messrs. Billings &
George. We welcome it as an exchange.
The Tliomasville people have begun
preparations for their annual spring fair.
Count Decatur In.
The forty-first gin house burned this
season is that of Mr. T. H. Willingham,
of Dougherty county.
The South Georgia Conference of »be
African Methodist Episcopal Church met
in Savannah last Saturday—Rev. Bishop
Wan! presiding. This is the most influen
tial body of colored Methodists in the
Southern States. As a Church they are
doing good service in the moral, social
and mental elevation of the race.
We enjoyed the last issue of the Talbot
ton Standard. We haven’t witnessed such
wonderful eloqueace since Mumford quit
making speeches at school. “Oh, ye Geor
gians!”
The bill introduced into the Georgia
Legislature, and which Will probably be
come a law, proposes to have all the dogs
in the State registered in a book provided
by the Ordinaries between the first of
April and the first of June, the owner pay
ing one dollar for registration, declaring
the registered number. The dog so regis
tered shall wear upon his neck a collar
bearing on it the name of his owner and
the registered number. A violation of this
order subjects the owner to a fine not ex
ceeding $50, or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days. The money arising from
the registration qfalogs goes to the public
school fund o^f” jhonnty. Any person
killing a dog not registered is entitled to
receive one dollar.
Albany Newt-. “The westward bound
lumber train on the Brunswick and Al
bany Railroad ran off the track, at half
past six o’clock Monday moning last, 20
miles east of Waycross, burying the en
gine in the sand and wrecking five cars.
The cause of the accident was a changed
switch, the work of unknown parties.
This accident caused the delay of the up
passenger train on Monday night.
The Columbus Sun says the Eagle and
Phoenix Manufacturing Company have de
clared a dividend of eight per cent.—$4
per share being paid after May 1st and $4
after November 1st. This speaks well for
the management to be able to declare a
dividend under the depressing trade influ
ences of the past year. It also demon
strates the superiority of the South for
manufacturing. The Northern mills have
barely lived. The directory have bought
a large lot of new and improved machine
ry to add to the productive capacity of
the mills, besides erecting a large brick
warehouse.
A suggestion to Gov. Smith : A con
vention is too expensive just now. Give
Hon. Mr. W. E. Mumford fifty ceDts and
a bunch of violets to write a new Consti
tution, and stop this howl about Conven
tion. We’re tired of it.
The Early County News calls the “fast
young men” of Blakely, whiskey-headed
simpletons.
Mr. C. J Mason, a deck passenger on
one of the Columbus river steamers, fell
overboard and was drowned.
Hon. Geo. 11. Pendleton, of Ohio, made
a spech in Savannah on Saturday to a
large assemblage of people. He expressed
the wish that though the people of this
country are as numerous as the waves,
yet he hoped they would he as the ocean-
one. lie spoke in glowing terms of our
“city by the sea,” and of the common
wealth of Georgia.
Camilla Enterprise -. A few weeks since
Messrs. Joseph Ellis and Thomas Palmer
of this place, bought out the stock of
merchandise, stand, etc., of Messrs. J. A.
Jones & Co., in this city. Only a few
weeks elapsed, and Messrs. J. A. Jones &
Co. opened another store, two doors away
from their old stand, and began merchan
dising again. Whereupon Messrs. Ellis
& Palmer, by their attorney, J H Spence,
tile their bill, praying for an injunction
restraining Messrs J. A. Jones & Co. from
opening another store in Camilla—alleg
ing among other things that said J. A.
Jones & Co. did agree to leave off selling
goods in said town—saying that they
were going to move away from the place
if they sold out. The case will come on
to be heard at chambers on Friday, (to
morrow) the 28th inst., before Judge
Wright. Messrs. Davis & Lyon represent
the Respondents. There is but one case
reported in the Books of a similar nature,
and will doubtless go to the Supreme
Court for final adjudication.
The Sumpter Republican makes a propo
sition to the effect that a number of
farmers, say one hundred, make up a
purse, to which each shall contribute five
dollars. This would make the sum five
hundred dollars. Now each one of these
farmers is to select one acre of land which
he is to put in cotton. At the end of the
year the farmer whojmakcs the biggest crop
on his selected acre is to have the purse
of five hundred dollars. This, it will be
seen, would be practically the same as
showing the yield of cotton per acre at a
fair in order to take the premium. The
good feature about this plan is that each
one will have a chance of jvinning in a
fair and honorable way the rather large
sum of five hundred dollars. Another
plan is also proposed in which the stakes
are somewhat larger. This second plan
is that each of these hundred farmers
attree to give to the one showing the
biggest yield on his acre the product of
all the other acres. By this plan, while
each one. should a very good crop be
made, will risk losing half a bale, the suc
cessful competitor will win fifty bales of
cotton.
Reports being in circulation that small
pox was prevailing to an alarming extent
in Savannah, Dr J. H. McFarland, Health
Officer of that city publishes tho follow
ing card in the News:
I am induced to make the following
statement by the erroneous reports in cir
culation which are injurious to the inter
ests of this city: On the 10th of January
I made an official report to the Mayor and
Aldermen of every case of small pox
known of up to date, having then nine
teen cases under treatment at the peat
house. Since the 10th Instant up to this
date, inclusive, I have had three cases
sent out of town, and know of no other
case or cases, excepting the on e
in my last statement, and which B nearly
or quite well by this time.
Humber 17-
current EVENTS
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil
will visit this country in the Spring.
The Boston Post advises Blame to put
on the bloody shirt and pull down his
vest.
The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor
and Superintendent of public instruction
of Mississippi are all to be impeached.
A hill making education compulsory
throughont the State of Mississippi has
been introduced in the Legislature.
The ice crop is a failure up North.—
Twenty thousand men in New York are
waiting for a freeze so they can go to
work.
The stereotype plates of the Congres
sional Globe up to 1873 have been offered
to the Government for sale by F. and J.
Rives, sons of the founder of that ponder
ous publication.
The House of Representatives’ Judiciary
Committee have made a majority report
in favor of one Presidential term only.
The amendment will be discussed next
Tuesday.
Street ears of a heavy, unweildly kind
are now run in Constantinople. Each
car is preceded by a half naked Turk who
shouts or blows a horn to warn the people
to get out of the way.
The New York Times, the leading jour
nal • of the Republican party, in an
nouncing the place where the next Nation
al Convention is to be held, stigmatized
Cincinnati as “Porkapolis. ”
Charles Francis Adam3 is suid to be
worth $2,500,000. And yet some people
blame him for being aristocratic. Give
nine-tenths of us two millions and a halt
each, and the poor man who dares to come
betwixt the wind and our nobility had
better been born a dog than answer our
waked wrath.
The Plymouth Church Ring has made
of Mrs. Tilton a very unnatural mother.
Her daughters Florence and Alice went to
sec her on New Year’s Day with presents,
which they sent up stairs to her, but she
sent them back and refused to see the
girls.
“Lightning,” an exchange reminds us,
“never strikes twice in the same place.”
And yet Grant is foolish enough to think
that he knows a place in which it is going
to strike for a third time
Schroeder’s celebrated air ship, which
was designed to take the mails from New
York to London in twenty-four hours,
was reduced to splinters by a severe gale
in Baltimore the other day. The vessel
was not completed.
Several companies of Federal soldiers
arrived in New Orleans, and more are ex
pected, while a cavalry company has been
sent into Southern Mississippi. Yet, Gen.
Grant says there are no troops to send to
the Rio Grande to protect the Texans
from Mexican raids.
The Hartford Post declares that the
newspapers of Washington are worthless.
But they are not. They are not worth
reading, it is true ; but for wrapping up
cheap packages they are little inferior to
the common run of newspapers.—Courier-
Journal.
The local reporters mention a man who
was saved from burglars by the barking
of his dogs, the rascals being frightened
off by the sagacious brutes. The burglars
must have been a pale and inexperienced
set. The thief who could not manage a
dog would soon either starve to death or
be compelled to accept a Government po
sition.
We adopt the words of the Vicksburg
Herald, and say that the current action of
the Mississippi Legislature in expunging
from the record the base resolution of the
former Legislature, indorsing the well-
known infamy of General Phil. Sheridan
in Louisiana, is worthy of all praise.
The New York Legislature has taken
a practicable step towards discouraging
the tramp who will not work, but insists
on eating, by adopting a hill which
provides for the relief of all applicants,
conditioned on their performance of a
certain reasonable task. If they do not
accede to this they forthwith declare
themselves vagrants, and become liable to
the customary penalties.
Courier-Journal-. The Cincinnati Gazette
tells its readers that “in the popular branch
of Congress no Union soldier, or friend
of Union soldiers, was elected” to office.
Colonel Adams, chief clerk of the House,
has long labored under the impression
that he was a Union soldier, having been
an offleer in the Union army; but as he was
never much in the rear, especially when
there Was a fight going on, and spent none
of his time with bummers in plundering
the women of their jewelry and embroid
ered petticoats to send home, it is, of
course, impossible that the Gazette people
could ever have met him during the war,
and therefore may not have known that
he was a Union soldier.
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
| Ways and Means of the last Congress in Jefferson Bavis t Htunuit J Vjfdj-
. The Legislature is still at work, with no
probability,’it is thought, of an adjourn
ment short of Jhe Constitutional] forty
days.
SENATE—BILES OFFERED.
By Mr.JHarris—To amend sections 242
aqd 243 of t he Code, so as to require Judges
of the Superior Courts to alternate so that
no Judge shall bold two different terms
in the same county consecutively.
By Mr. Black—To repeal so much of
section 1272 of the Code as requires the
Governor to issue new bonds in lieu of
those cancelled.
By Mr. Simmons—To require guardians
to settle with female wards on marriage;
also to define the liabilities of life and fire
insurance companies to persons insured.
By Mr. Kibbee—To define liabilities of
the State as owners of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad; also to empower
Judges of the Superior Courts to employ
stenographers in their courts; and also to
provide for juries in trials of cases of for
cible entry and detainer.
The following bill was lost: To declare
dogs not to be subject of simple larceny.
Mr. Harris—To amend sections 920 and
934 of^the Code so as to require Tax Col
lectors and Receivers to keep a standing
advertisement of their appointments; also
to authorize the issuing of garnishments
in distress warrants.
“There exist,” says the Atlanta corres
pondent of the Augusta CXrotieie, a grow
ing conviction that all exemption laws
ought to be repealed. Men of business
experience say no capitalists in the world
will seek Georgia as long as she maintains
such a system of laws—laws that will not
secure creditors in their investments
unless they bs dealing every time with
honest men.”
BILLS INTRODUCED.
In the HouSe, the following new bills
were introduced:
Mr. McGill—To relieve plaintiffs in fi.
fa. cases from paying advertising fees in
certain cases.
Mr Shelnut—To amend section 529 of
the Code, so as to require a license of $100
to retail spirituous liquor and $50 to sell
in any quanties.
Mr. Jones, of Buke—To appropriate
money to the purchase of arms for volun
teer military companies in this Stale; also
to appropriate money to meet expenses
incurred by certain counties in quelling
recent disturbances.
Mr. McAfee—To amend section 1844 of
the Code, so as to require judgment in
Ordinaries courts against guardians to be
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court.
By Mr. Bacon, of Bibb county—To reg
ulate the mode of trial in certain civil cas
es, and providing for a special verdict in
cases named.
By General Lawton—To amend the law
of injunctions so as to require bonds to be
given before the granting of injunction to
stop the sale of property under execution;
also, to provide supplement proceedings
against judgment debtors after the return
of executions satisfied:
By Mr. Black—To require municipal
corporations to levy a tax tc pay interest
on the bonds and to prevent the resigna
tion of officers to avoid services of legal
process; also, to compensate Ordinaries
for returns of marriages, births and deaths.
By Mr. Rudicil—To establish a depart
ment in the deaf and dumb asylum for
the reception of colored deaf mutes.
The Convention question is creating
great excitement in the House, ami the
Speaker cannot keep down the applause.
Col. Warren made an eloquent and forci
ble speech in favor of a convection. The
discussion will continue to-morrow, and
promises to be heated and exciting. The
convention men call forth prolonged ap
plause, but still the result is not certain.
The wire-pullers are at work here quite
lively manipulating for candidates for
Governor. The air is full of political
prognostications, and a lively contest is at
hand.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS-
Washington, Jan. 25.—In the Senate,
Sargent presented a petition to allow
women in the District of Columbia suf
frage. He said the movement was making
progress. He knew no better place to
make the experiment than in the capital
of the country. Referred to the District
Committee.
There were additional petitions for the
Texas Pacific Railroad.
The citizens of Wisconsin petition for
the abolition of the Senate of the United
States. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Gordon introduced a bill for the relief
of Wm. S. McComb, of Georgia.
The Finance Committee of the Senate
agreed to report favorably on the nomi
nation of McGrew as Auditor of the Post
office Department.
The House committee agreed to report
a bill to allow criminals to testify in cer
tain cases. The object is supposed to be
to learn what Joyce knows about the
whiskey frauds.
In the House, several finance bills were
introduced, one funding lngal-tendere by
forty-year four per cent, bonds, not over
three millions per month.
By Ward—Protection of life on steam
boats. _
Mackey.—Improvement of Charleston
harbor.
Riddle—the improvement of Cumber
land river.
Blount—The improvement of the Alta-
maba and Ocmulgee riven.
Morrison, from the Committee on Way*
and Means, reported a resolution directing
the papere laid before the House and the
testimony taken before the Committee of
regard to the Pacific Mall subsidy, be
taken from the Speaker's table and re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee, with
instructions to enquire what action should
be taken by the House in reference to per
sons now members of the House who are
charged with complicity in a corrupt use
of money for that purpose or with giving
also testimony in relation thereto. Adop
ted.
The Election Committee were ordered
to inquire into the nature and history of
the real estate pool in which Jay Cooke
& Co. were interested.
Rainey offered a resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for a full
and complete report from the Commis
sioners of the Freedman’s Bank. Adop
ted.
Holman offered a resolution instructing
the Judiciary Committee to inquire
whether improper and fraudulent means
were resorted to to Influence legislation
on the Texas Pacific Railroad bill of the
3d of March, 1871, and whether contracts
and combinations were subsequently
entered into by the company in violation
of that act. Adopted.
Morton introduced a bill for the relief
of General Rouseau. On motion of Mor
ton certain papers purporting to be the
credentials of Mr. Eustis as Senator from
Louisiana, were referred to the Committee
Privileges and Electiona. Adopted.
Davis’s Treasury investigation resolu
tions were resumed, and the resolutions
amended that investigations be made by
the Finance Committee of the Senate
instead of a special committee. Adopted
by a vote of 28 to 23. Booth,of California,
voted with the Democrats in the minori
ty.
The bill removing the disabilities of
Geo. G. Hawkins, of Louisiana, was
passed.
The bill creating a liquor commission
was discussed.
Cox introduced a bill to abolish the
Bureau of Education.
The Railroad Committee of the Senate
agreed to recommend the passage of a bill
to extend the time of the completion of
the North Pacific Railroad eiqj^ years.
The Postmaster General wti# before the
committee of the House explaining certain
operations of the department.
It is intimated in certain well-informed
circles that three ex-Trcasury officials are
indiclud for complicity in Parkman.
Brooks & Co.’s transactions. Nothing of
ficial is accessible.
Defeat of the Stearns Ring-
Oar telegrams from Tallahassee give the
gratifying information that Stearns and
his organised gang of plunderers have
been defeated in their cunning and per
sistent attempts to take posession of the
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail
road. It was the intention of the ring,
provided they had carried out their
purposes, to place the road once more
under the corrupt control of that well
known bond thief and fugitive from
justice, Milton S. Littlefield. Under his
manipulation the road would become a
mere instrument in the hands of the Radi
cals to defeat the plans and purposes of
those who desire to see the State adminis
tration once more in the posession of hon
est and capable hands. For several years
it has been under the control of a set of
corrupt and unblushing aliens whose in
terest in the welfare of the State is bound
ed by the amount they can steal from the
tax-payers.
The decision alluded to in our special
telegTams is a very severe -blow to the
Stearns crew. It takes out of their hands
a large and important amount of official
patronage, and leaves them, so far as the
road is concerned, to depend upon other
resources of their knavery. The decision
is also important in relieving the tax
payers of Florida from paying the uncon
stitutional bonds issued by the State to
the road, and appropriated to his own use
by Milton S. Littlefield, who is believed
to have sold them in Germany and other
countries and pocketed the proceeds.
Altogether the victory is a notable one,
and as a triumph of right and justice over
fraud and corruption, seems to be a fore
runner of the complete redemption of the
people of Florida from Radical and
carpet-bag rule.—Sav. News.
os ted—The Injustioe Done Eia.
[From the Baltimore Sun ]
We have before stated that the Rich
mond Examiner, the leading newspaper
opponent of Jefferson Davis during the
war in the South, as well as the moat
extreme in its denunciation of the
Northern invaders, constantly attacked
Mr. Davis for his merciful disposition
towards Northern prisoners. We call
ed the attention of Mr. Blaine to this
fact, which is so irreconcilable with his
attempt to identify Mr. Davis with al
leged cruelties and attoeities to North
ern prisoners in the Sbuth. As Mr.
Blaine may not have access to the files
of the Examiner, we ask his attention to
the following extracts from that journal;
They are collected from a volume enti
tled “The Richmond Examiner During
the War; or, The Writings of John M.
Daniel (the editor), with a Memoir of
his Life, by his brother, Frederick 8.
Daniel: New York, 1868.” Said ths
Examiner on one occasion :
“Retaliation is the principle at the
foundation of criminal law. The Uni
ted States are conducting the war in a
style which can only be characterized
as diabolical. The Senate of the Con
federate States seems to have fully reo-
ognized this truth. But, while it has
promised, preached, denounced and
vapored, we are yet to hear of one sin
gle practical act of that nature on ths
part of the Confederate authorities, mil
itary or civil. What will the civilized
world think of us ? These and the like
puerile conceits constitute the key to
much of our conduct in this war.”—
Richmond Examiner, September 2,
1862.
“The South wants no more ministers
or ageute smuggled into Washington (to
treat on the manner of conducting the
war) to be insulted there and dismissed.
The proposition to mitigate the horrors
and severities of the war is curiously
introduced into the Confederate Con
gress at the very, moment our armies
arc passing into the enemy’s territory
It proposes a sentimental appeal to the
people of the North, calls them ‘our
brethren,’ and declares that we would
Still moke thorn out (Plio li-no
for this stuff about brotherly love is
past.”—Examiner, Sept. 11, 1862.
“But a short time since Mr. Davis
came out with a solemn publication of
his intention to punish the vio’ation of
the rules of civilized a wby Pope and
his officers. Our brave troops having
taken h number of these officers prison
ers, they were brought here to Rich
mond and placed in confinement. Only
threats.”—Examiner, Decant bar , 10,
1863.
“If the Confederate capital has been
in the eloeest danger of maantire and
conflagration *if the Preiridewt and Cab
inet have run a serious risk of being
hanged at their own doors, .do we. not
owe it chiefly to the milk-sod-water spir
it in which .he war has beeit hitherto
conducted ? It is time to ask in what
hght are the people of the Confederate
States regarded by their own govern
ment. It is time that oar kind and re
ligious rulers shall begin to show mercy
to us and put robbers and fire-raiders
to death. The government is nerve
less and vacillating as usual.”—yTho
Examiner, Inarch 5 and Maroh II, cm
the Dahlgren raid.
“It is sad when your leader hafSW^ ’
dragged and goaded to make him *>
much as follow. A government ought
to be the head and heart of ft national
movement, not the tail, nor the poste
rior.”—Examiner t March 26, 1664.
“The President’s stern aei£-wUl is
for us, his confederates; his gracious
gentleness for our foes.”—April8, 1864.
“With regard to t.;e brutalities com
mitted by the enemy upon otr dftffinse
less old men, women and ohildren the
President (in his message, thinks there
is a mode of redress and eventually re*
paration. ‘Sooner or later,’ he says
‘Christendom must mete out te them
the condemnation whioh such brutality
doserverf.’ Upon which the editor re
marks, ‘We doubt this; we ihouid
like to have a better security,—May 4,
1864. ,
In the Examiner of Jnly 22, *1864,
appeared an amusing burlesque pur
porting to bo a letter from a Japanese
commissioner visiting the South’, to'his
government, in whion the following sa
tirical allusions are made to 1 Mr. Davis:
“My interview- with the Tjrooon
(Davis) was highly satisfactory, and be*
fore I left his presence I was convinced
that of all barbarians be is the ' great
est. He is mild aud'geade towards
his enemies bit governs his people
sternly sad firmly. Should your Impe
rial Majesty desire, in times of wmt, to
increase the efficiency of yonr troops,
you have only to allow a band of your
enemies to ravage and destroy their
homes, murder their fathers, sad out
rage their wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters. Occasionally some of those
ho commit such deeds here are taken
tPlio »i.np nriaoners, Instantly a fev
son trot tan
In the Christian Index appears a report
signed by Rev. C. M. Irwin, Secretary,
from which we glean the following facts :
Of 1,000 churches connected with the as
sociations represented in the State con
vention, 500 have adopted some syste
matic method of collecting funds, while
400 have contributed something to the
mission and Sunday School work. Only
five associations ignore missions and Sun
day Schools. $33,000 were contributed
for missions, which includes the State
Sunday School work. The result of mis
sionary labor for the year was : Baptisms,
3,700 ; c hurches organized, 49 ; Sunday
Schools, 50; evergreen Sunday Schools,
390 ; Schools that close pvt of the year,
480; new Schools organized by Superin
tendent Boykin, 227 ; conversions in Sun
day Schools, 640; scholars and officers,
34,800. The international lessons are in
general use, aad the conventions and in
stitutes popular.
Gratiot Washburae, who has just been
appointed secretary of the United States
legation at St. Petersburg at a salary of
$4,000 in gold, has been acting as travel
ing agent for Myers’ circus in Paris, where
he was an attache of the American lega
tion.
last week the resolution of the Presi
dent melted down. Pope’s officers were
all sent home on the cartel. - ”—Exami
ner, Sept. 29, 1862.
“Hainan experience has yet disoov*
ered but one means of preventing vio
lent crime. It is by violent punish
ment.” “The Confederate Government
knows the right and still the wrong
pursues. Sir President Davis’s proc
lamations and pronunciamentoe, his
horrible threaten! ngs and gloomy ap
peals have been so often repeated that
hey are the sneer of the world But
never have they resulted in one solitary
performance. He is very obstinate,
very bitter, when he gets in a quarrel
with some Southern officer, over whom
the law gives him temporary control.
But wbem his duty brings him in con
tact with the enemy be is as gentle as
the sucking dove.
“Lately the question of retaliation
has come up in a form singularly di
rect, Two Confederate recruiting offi
cers in Kentucky were captured and
hung, on the ground that Kentucky
was one of the United States, a prece
dent which, as all the other States are
claimed by the UnioD, would, if unpun
ished, hang every recruiting officer in
every State of the Confederacy. The
point was too plain to be evaded, and
the government ordered two Yankee of
ficers to execution. But instead of
hanging them, it commissioned no less
considerable a personage than Mr.
Stephens, the Vice President of the re
public, to arrange a back door of mercy
to the enemy, and of cruelty to its own
people. Mr. Stephens was sent to
Washington with a letter of credence to
Mr. Lincoln, and another of instruc
tion to himself from President Davis, in
which it was indicated -that if the Fed
eral Government would mitigate the
horrors of war the Confederate Gov
ernment would be happy to indulge in
boundless compassion to the two Yan
kees aforesoid.’ The Vice President
was not permitted to proceed farther
than Hampton Roods.”—Examiner,
July 16 1867.
Commenting on President Davis’s
message of December, 1863, the Ex
aminer says :
‘‘The story of the Yankee cartel is
clearly told, bat no reasonable excuse is
aaade for the unprecedented indulgence
which permits the enemy to send luxu
ries to Belle Isle, while our soldiers
This is about the only important local starve in captivity on Johnson’s Island,
item in the Dawson Journal this week: An eloquent recapitulation of the bar-
“Paris and New York ladies have discard- barities of the enemy concludes the mes-
ed f»l— hair. Dawson lsd’f* will do so sage, which induced Mr. Davis to threat-
abprn spring ” retaliation aad not to fulfill hia
persons det
be put to death. At once'the Tyooon
takes them under his protection, treats
them, with the greatest kindness, aad,
as soon as possible, sends them back to
their own country. There , are many
persons among the barbarians who vio
lently oppose the oonduot of the Tyapos,
but they are had and unpatriotio qwn,
who are unwilling to lose their all that.
the Tycoon may have an opportunity of
exhibiting his wonderful humanity,
which is, indeed, the most remarkable
ever exhibited by any earthly ruler.”
From the beginning to the end of
tho war ridicule of the moderation of
Mr. Davis to . Northern prisoners was
the constant burden of the Examiner:
Who can believe that such a miut was
privy to crueltyat Andersonville or any
where else f Yet if the editor At thn
Examiner, who constantly sneered at
his humanity, were living. Would
have been amnestied yea?,, while
Mr. Davis continues to be ‘ exolq^ed
from its privileges! - r
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It is a Colorado girl who is spewing.
in the Laramie Sun to her bashful
lover; “Nobby, you’ve bin foolin’
'round this claim for mighty near is year,
an’ her never yet shot off yer mouth on
the marryin’ bis. I’ve cottoned to var
on the square clean through, an’ her
stood off every other galoot that has
tried to chip in ; an’ now I want yer to
come down to business or leave the
ranch. . If yer on the marry, an’ want
a pard that’ll stick rite to ye till ye pea*
in yer cheeks, an’ the good Lord calls
ye over the range, just squeal arf we’ll
bitch; but, ef that ain’t yer game, drew
oat an’ give some other feller s' show
for hia pile. Now, sing yer flong or
skip out. You bet he sirog. ’ .
A young gentleman met a lady friend
in the street, and seeing a roll in her
hand, which he supposed to be' mono,
asked her what it was. “You'Ve been
Drinking,” she curtly responded. “Why
—why—” stammered the youth, blush
ing prodigiously and overwhelmed with
confusion, “why, I have not touched a
drop today. The young lady looked
him steight in the fate and repeated,
“I my, you’ve been drin—Mi before
she could finish he fled seroas the street,
and she was compelled to send him a
note the next morning explaining that
“You’ve been Drinking” wna-the titte
of the piece of taiMie she earned.
The first newspaper, says Figaro,
which appeared in England, W«s pub
lished at the time of the threatened
8panish invasion la 1683. It waa la*
sued by die government for the resaw,
asstetad, “that the publication is the
sorest means of making the truth knows
to the people,aadofoonteadtsgagainst
the sin of lying sad exaggerations ef
ealomny.” Tho .oldest anber ef thin
journal extant • No 60, July *, 1MB*.
now in the British Hutto*.
